The precursor to this achievement was a similar patching done last year, where 75% of a patient's skull was replaced with a 3D-printed implant made of polyetherketoneketone (PEKK, a thermoplastic).

In this story, Frank gets the idea of the skull from his son, Will, who gives him a T-shirt with the logo on it from a trip he had in Puerto Rico and says that the skull is meant to ward off evil.

The researchers note that the advantages of their new skull option would extend to chronic monitoring of cerebral edema or swelling, and for more precise targeting of therapies for residual gliomas.

In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) designed and implanted a transparent window in the skull of ...

During emergency surgery, half of Hager's skull was removed to relieve pressure on his brain. Doctors had planned to replace the skull bone once Hager recovered, but the pandemic derailed those plans.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique 3D-printed transparent skull implant for mice that provides an opportunity to watch activity of the entire brain surface in real time ...

A 1.8-million-year old human skull unearthed in Dmanisi, Georgia, is the most complete Homo skull ever found. It suggests only one species of homo erectus.